Retail Tech Startups

Corsight AI develops facial recognition and facial intelligence software used for security, loss prevention, and access control across retail, healthcare, correctional, and public safety settings. Its technology identifies persons of interest under difficult conditions, anonymizes non-target biometric data, and integrates with CCTV and access control systems, with deployments in Latin America, the US, and Israel.

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Cosmo Denzai is a retailer of electrical installation materials such as wiring, conduits, distribution panels, tools, air conditioners, ventilation fans, and lighting fixtures. Founded in 1994 and based in Fukuoka, Japan, it supplies products from manufacturers including Panasonic, Toshiba, and Mitsubishi Electric.

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CosyRobo provides autonomous scout robots that use AI and machine vision to navigate stores and perform automated shelf surveys, scanning and mapping products to track inventory. The system helps retailers reduce stock-outs, improve planogram compliance, and free up staff for customer service.

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Couture Technologies provides an AI-powered sizing and fit suite—including size recommendations, fit agents, and 3D virtual try-on—delivered via API and web-based experiences to reduce size-related returns and speed up fittings. It serves fashion apparel retailers and uniform programs across sectors such as airports, hotels, healthcare, and logistics.

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CPO Outlets is an online retailer selling reconditioned and refurbished power tools, including brands such as DeWALT and Makita, offering them to consumers at discounted prices. It operates as an e-commerce store with free shipping over a set order threshold.

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Crave Retail provides a retail operations and customer engagement platform for physical stores, combining in-store and mobile experiences to track shopper journeys and optimize service. The platform uses RFID and service routing technology to connect fitting rooms, sales floors, and mobile devices into a unified system for retail teams.

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CREA provides e-commerce enablement services including TikTok livestreaming and shoptainment content production, store operations, omnichannel technology, e-fulfillment, and social commerce marketing. It serves brands looking to sell and grow across online channels in Asia.

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Crest offers an AI and ML-based platform for demand forecasting, inventory planning, and replenishment aimed at D2C and e-commerce businesses. The tool provides granular demand visibility to help brands avoid stockouts and reduce excess inventory.

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CRMBonus is a Brazilian retail platform combining cashback, customer data, and AI to help physical and online retailers increase sales, customer loyalty, and repeat purchases. It serves retail brands across segments such as fashion, beauty, pharmacy, and home goods, offering marketing automation, CRM, and retail media tools that integrate with ERPs, POS systems, and e-commerce platforms.

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Cue-Go is a New Zealand-based retailer of professional production equipment including lighting, audio, video, and effects gear. It serves production companies, schools, event organizers, and hire companies with local inventory and technical support.

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Cunninghams EPOS Group provides EPOS (electronic point of sale) systems for retail and hospitality businesses, with hardware including countertop tills, handheld devices, tablets, and integrated scales. The company offers integrated payments, UK-based support, and connections to accounting, table management, and online ordering platforms, serving businesses across the UK.

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Curium builds CuTrack, a spatial analytics platform that combines existing CCTV camera feeds with selectively placed LiDAR sensors to deliver anonymous 3D people-tracking, re-identification, and behavior insights such as journey times, queue analytics, and dwell time. It provides real-time dashboards and digital twins of monitored spaces while remaining GDPR/PDPA-compliant with no biometric profiling.

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Custobar provides a customer data and marketing platform for retail and ecommerce businesses, including an email marketing editor for creating and sending email campaigns. It helps companies manage customer data and run marketing across channels.

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Custobar provides a customer data and marketing platform for retail and e-commerce businesses, including an email marketing tool with a drag-and-drop email editor for creating and sending campaigns.

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Cutwel is an online retailer of cutting tools and related engineering supplies, selling to trade and industrial customers through an e-commerce store. It offers next-day delivery in the UK.

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Cymbio operates a platform that connects brands to marketplaces, dropship retailers, social networks, and consumer-facing LLMs, automating product content, inventory, orders, and returns across sales channels. It targets brands and retailers looking to sell across online marketplaces and emerging agentic commerce channels worldwide.

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Daasity is an analytics and data platform for consumer brands that connects ecommerce, retail sales, marketing, and inventory data into a unified view without requiring data engineering. It offers connectors, merchandising categorization, pricing and promotion optimization, and cross-channel reporting for brands selling online, offline, or both.

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Daniels Jewelers is a jewelry retailer selling rings, bracelets, watches, and lockets, with promotions, in-store and online gift offers, and financing/pre-approval options for shoppers. It also runs a Cash-for-Gold service that buys unwanted gold jewelry from customers.

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Tinai is a mobile app for shop owners to record income and expenses, track debts and payment due dates with SMS reminders, manage inventory with barcode scanning, and generate invoices and revenue/profit reports. It targets small retail store owners, serving the Vietnamese market.

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DashLX provides "Lived Experience (LX) Data," a platform that captures how customers use physical products in the real world by combining wearable signals, activity context, and environment with a brand's existing customer data. It serves physical-product brands in active/outdoor, retail/ecommerce, and fitness/wellness categories, using behavioral data and automation to trigger personalized messaging and improve retention and lifetime value.

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Datascan provides self-scan physical inventory counting solutions, including tracking software, analytics, RFID scanners, and staffing services, for retailers to conduct on-demand inventory counts. It serves retail clients globally in over 42 countries with both full-service and self-service inventory count options.

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Dataviva provides a low-code platform for promotion planning, optimization, and demand forecasting, integrating data from external systems and multiple teams to predict outcomes and adapt to marketing, inventory, and supplier collaboration processes. It targets retail and consumer goods organizations managing product promotions.

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Datawifi provides a WiFi-based platform that turns network connectivity into business intelligence, including an AI-powered captive portal (SmartWiFi) for user identification and marketing, a location analytics tool (FlowMetrics) for foot-traffic and movement insights in physical spaces, and internet access control (SmartFilter). It serves businesses across multiple sectors, integrating with social networks, CRMs, and payment systems, and operates in more than 14 countries across 3 continents.

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Dathic uses data science and machine learning to help consumer packaged goods brands understand and engage with the diverse population of US shoppers. It aggregates data on products, places, and shoppers to produce insights that support brand growth and marketing decisions.

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